# jroimartin/gocui

Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.

Repository: https://github.com/jroimartin/gocui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gocui
Language: Go
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: gocui, go, cui, gui
Last push: 2025-05-01T12:16:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 41/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 19, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4624, "days_push": 489, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10591, forks 643 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:42.499936+00:00)

## What it is
GOCUI is a minimalist Go package for building console user interfaces (TUIs) with overlapping views, keybindings, mouse support, and colored text. It provides a small, concurrent-safe API for creating terminal-based interactive applications.

## Use cases
- build a terminal dashboard in go
- create a tui app with keybindings
- write a console ui with mouse support
- make a cli tool with interactive views
- build terminal widgets and layouts in go

## When to choose
- you want a small, minimalist TUI library in Go
- you need overlapping views and runtime-modifiable GUIs
- you prefer a simple io.ReadWriter-based view model

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured widget toolkit with extensive components
- you are building a graphical (non-terminal) application
- you want a maintained library with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: terminal-ui, gui, ui-components
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: tui, console-ui, text-user-interface, views, keybindings, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- jroimartin/gocui (main) score 41

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.499936+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:18:29.891535+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jroimartin/gocui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.499936+00:00, sha d561c7bf3975)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.